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Enrollment
696
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159004441
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5240 BERKLEY RD, AUBURNDALE, FL 33823 · (863) 968-5024 · Polk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL696 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
249 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 132 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
76.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
85.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 85.2% |
| 2023-24 | 73.6% | 78.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (77.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 696 | 35.8% | 77.2% |
| PELICAN MARSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 677 | 33.7% | 79.3% |
| CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKSVILLE | 783 | 36.4% | 74.5% |
| PHILLIPPI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 696 | 34.8% | 76.1% |
| LEILA DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 636 | 33.6% | 71.0% |
| SEA GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 668 | 35.3% | 82.9% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #244 of 2,136 | #7 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.2% | #142 of 2,149 ▲ 123 | #4 of 86 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #256 of 2,149 ▲ 7 | #7 of 86 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 696 | #713 of 2,267 | #31 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #1,658 of 2,077 | #52 of 85 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.5% | #1,347 of 2,108 | #79 of 85 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.8% | #1,686 of 2,188 | #86 of 88 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
696
0 (0%) vs 2020
+24% since 2000-01, when it was 560
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 696 | 39 | 17.9:1 | 36% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 696 | 41 | 17.0:1 | 41% (287) |
| 2022-23 | 696 | 41 | 17.0:1 | 37% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 41 | 17.0:1 | 31% (217) |
| 2017-18 | 696 | 70 | 9.9:1 | 36% (249) |
| 2015-16 | 697 | 48 | 14.5:1 | 33% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 680 | 56 | 12.1:1 | 32% (216) |
| 2000-01 | 560 | 28 | 20.0:1 | 57% (321) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in AUBURNDALE, Florida. The school serves 696 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
POLK is made up of 163 schools with 116,552 students in all.
White students are the majority at BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 65% of enrollment. The school is also 26% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 56%. The school's diversity index is 51%, meaning two students picked at random have a 51% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 17.9:1. That is close to the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 36% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The gap from the 65% average for public schools in Polk County is 29 points.
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 92% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 77.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 63.3%.
In Polk County (population about 790,694), the median household income is $65,978, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. There are 172 public schools in Polk County, enrolling about 117,004 students in all.
The shortest distance from BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to BERKLEY ACCELERATED. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1st on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
In 2020-21, BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 696; in 2024-25, 696.
The BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in AUBURNDALE
- AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,770 students
- JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLEMiddle · 1,013 students
- LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 915 students
- WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 887 students
- BERKLEY ACCELERATEDMiddle · 622 students
- CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 600 students
Nearby schools
- BERKLEY ACCELERATED0.1 mi · 622
- POLK PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMY0.1 mi · 39
- POLK CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 545
- LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 915
- AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.2 mi · 1,770
- JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLE5.2 mi · 1,013
Frequently asked questions
About BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 696 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.9:1 students per teacher at BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 65% White, 26% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of POLK.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.